{"id":45425,"date":"2022-10-01T01:50:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/involve-me-and-i-understand-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:50:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:50:20","slug":"involve-me-and-i-understand-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/involve-me-and-i-understand-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Involve Me, And I Understand &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an elementary school teacher for 27 years, my wife had a sign sitting on her homeroom desk that contained a message which emphasized personal involvement in the learning process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The sign read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tell me<\/strong>, and I forget.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Show me<\/strong>, and I remember.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Involve me<\/strong>, and I understand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The retention of information in listening to someone telling us&#8221; about something, is minuscule (cf. John 14:22-25). This is why the Holy Spirits purpose was to bring to their remembrance all things that the Lord had taught His disciples while here on earth (John 14:26).<\/p>\n<p>Well retain much more information, if someone shows us or provides an illustration of what they are talking about (cf. John 13:1-17).<\/p>\n<p>However, real learning and understanding takes place, only when there is <strong>an involvement of both the student&#8217;s mind and body in the learning experience<\/strong> (see quote). We have to engage in the activity ourselves if any real learning is to occur.<\/p>\n<p>It is not enough just to have people tell and show us how something is properly done, we must involve ourselves in the learning experience if we are to fully <strong>understand<\/strong> how something is done (Ephesians 5:1-17).<\/p>\n<p>If we want to learn how to fish, we must fish ourselves. If we want to learn how to operate a computer, we must operate a computer ourselves. If we want to know more and have a greater understanding about the Bible, we must study the Bible ourselves (2 Timothy 2:15 ASV). No amount of telling and showing will get the job done.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the church is not growing spiritually as it should. We <strong>tell<\/strong> folks about the gospel of Christ  we <strong>show<\/strong> them why they should become a Christian  but we dont get them <strong>involved<\/strong> in teaching others about the saving gospel of Christ (2 Timothy 2:1-2).<\/p>\n<p>In teaching others, we are teaching ourselves (Romans 2:21-22; cf. Matthew 23:3). And in teaching ourselves, we ourselves gain <strong>a more complete understanding of God and His Word<\/strong> (2 Timothy 2:15 ASV).<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly what God emphasized to Moses when He instructed him to:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, lest you <strong>forget<\/strong> the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. <strong>And teach them to your children and your grandchildren<\/strong>&#8230;.. (Deuteronomy 4:9 &#8211; emphasis. mine).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>By involving ourselves in the teaching of Gods word to our children and grandchildren, we not only gain a greater knowledge of Gods word, we gain a greater <strong>understanding<\/strong> of Gods word, thus becoming a more mature child of God in the process (Ephesians 4:11-16; note specifically Ephesians 4:13; cf. Hebrews 5:12-14).<\/p>\n<p>We can now more fully <strong>understand<\/strong> why our Lord instructs us to teach all nations (Matthew 28:19). Only through the medium of teaching, can we as followers of Christ properly grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an elementary school teacher for 27 years, my wife had a sign sitting on her homeroom desk that contained a message which emphasized personal involvement in the learning process. The sign read: Tell me, and I forget. Show me, and I remember. Involve me, and I understand. The retention of information in listening to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/involve-me-and-i-understand-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Involve Me, And I Understand &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}